Place Your Bets: Approaches to Engaging the Social Sciences TABLE OF CONTENTS SSSA President’s Welcome iii SSSA Plenary Speaker v Affiliates Best Paper Awards vii SSSA Presidents x SSSA Council xv Affiliates and Their Presidents xvii General Program Committee for 2008 Annual Meeting xviii SSSA Committees and Their Members xviii General Program Guidelines for 2009 Annual Meeting xxii Future Annual Meeting Dates and Sites xxiii SSSA Meetings and Events xxiv Affiliates Meetings and Social Events xxvi SSSA Workshops and Events xxviii SSSA Students’ Social Event xxix General Convention Information xxx The 2008 SSSA Program—Session Listings 1 Participant Index 212 Hotel/Meeting Room Floor Plans 234 ii SSSA PRESIDENT’S WELCOME Dear SSSA Colleagues: I am delighted to welcome you to the 88th annual meeting of the Southwestern Social Science Association. We are convening in Las Vegas, Nevada, for the first time. I very much appreciate the contributions of Lydia Andrade, our site selection director, and convention director Peter Wielhouwer in tending to innumerable details in preparation for our meeting. I hope all of you find your stay here to be profitable. Our theme for this year’s meeting is “Place Your Bets.” We want to highlight and reflect on the array of approaches, complementary and competing, we utilize within and across our disciplines in our common efforts to understand, explain, and even predict human behavior. Our general program chair, Tracy Dietz, working with our affiliate representatives, has assembled an impressive group of panels. Please take full advantage of the offerings in your areas of interest and expertise. Additionally, I encourage each of you to attend sessions outside your comfort zones to avail yourselves of alternative perspectives and concerns of our colleagues. Please reserve time in your schedule for our plenary session on Thursday afternoon. Dr. Howard Silver, executive director of the Consortium of Social Science Associations, will be delivering the keynote address. Dr. Silver ably aggregates and advocates our professional interests with national policy-makers in Washington, D.C. Also, be reminded that our general business meeting agenda on Friday afternoon will include a motion to create the position of executive director for our organization. Our decision on this vote will have enormous consequences for our future as an association. We want and need your participation. Please reserve time to visit our exhibitors’ booths. Thanks to the labors of exhibits and publisher relations director Eddie Weller, we can view a wide variety of publications and communicate face-to-face with publishers’ representatives about our teaching and research interests. iii Finally, I want you to disregard the aphorism, “what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.” Rather, I want each of us to return to our campuses and offices with fresh insights and revived energies to advance the contributions of the social sciences. Sincerely, Hal Bass Harold F. Bass President, 2007-2008 iv PLENARY SESSION 4:00 pm Thursday March 13, 2008 Top of the Riv Ballroom North Our 2008 Plenary Speaker: Howard J. Silver, Ph.D. Executive Director, Consortium of Social Science Associations, Washington, DC Dr. Silver serves as the Executive Director of the Consortium of Social Science Associations (COSSA) in Washington, DC, a position he has held since 1988. The Consortium, supported by over 110 professional associations, scientific societies, universities and research institutes, promotes attention to and federal funding for the social, behavioral, and economic sciences and serves as a bridge between the research community and the Washington policy making community. Dr. Silver previously served COSSA as its Associate Director for Government Relations from 1983-88. Prior to joining COSSA, Dr. Silver was a consultant for legislative and political research, a political campaign manager, and a legislative analyst in the U.S. Department of Education. He has taught political science and public policy at a number of colleges and universities. Dr. Silver came to Washington in 1980 as an Institute for Educational Leadership Policy Fellow. Dr. Silver has testified before Congress, spoken at many professional meetings on federal funding of science, and written extensively on executive-legislative relations, the federal budget process, and science policy as it affects the social and behavioral sciences. In 2001, to celebrate the Consortium’s 20th Anniversary, he co-wrote and edited, Fostering Human Progress: v Social and Behavioral Research Contributions to Public Policy. He recently published “Science and Politics: The Uneasy Relationship” in Open Spaces magazine (Vol. 8 Number 1). Elected by his science policy colleagues, Dr. Silver served from 1994-2000 as the Chairman of the Coalition for National Science Funding (CNSF), an ad-hoc advocacy group with membership from scientific and engineering societies, higher education associations, and industrial groups. A tribute to his leadership of CNSF appeared in the November 1, 2000 issue of the Congressional Record. In 1998, he was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is a co-founder of the Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Systems. In 2006 he became the President of the National Capital Area Political Science Association, after serving on its council. He was on the planning committee for the 2004 Gordon Research Conference on Science and Technology Policy. From 1998-2000 he served on the Council of the American Political Science Association (APSA) and has twice served on the Executive Committee of the Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics. Dr. Silver received his Ph.D. in Political Science from The Ohio State University in 1975. A native of New York City, he obtained his B.A. from the City College of the City University of New York in 1969.SSSA AFFLIATES’ BEST PAPER AWARDS vi SSSA AFFILIATES’ BEST PAPER AWARDS (Papers Presented at the 2006 Annual Meeting) Southwestern Economics Association Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Subhra Bhattacharjee, Iowa State University, “A Re-examination of Competition and Fragility in a Banking Industry,” Second Place Wen-Yao Wang and Paula Hernandez, Texas A&M University, “Financial Fragility and Exchange Rate Regimes in a Small Open Economy,” Third Place Michael Hand, University of New Mexico, “The Role of Forest Resources as Amenities in the Southwest,” Outstanding Undergraduate Student Award Tracey Freiberg, Coe College “The Opportunity Costs of Attending Law School,” Second Place Roxanne L Luegge, Oklahoma City University “To the Winner Goes the Spoils: Evidence of Tournament theory in Corporate America,” Third Place Aaron Roy Dighton, Coe College “Benjamin Bernanke's Effect on Monetary Policy at the United States Federal Reserve, Honorable Mention Dasgupta Shouro, Oklahoma City University “Structural Adjustment Program and Education in Bangladesh,” Southwestern Political Science Association Undergraduate Student Paper Award Merve Emre, Harvard University, “Liberalization or Sustained Openness? A Rare Events Correction to Empirical Models of Democratization and Trade Liberalization” vii Honorable Mention Megan Westrum, Duke University, “Individual Trade-Policy Preferences in Malaysia: An Empirical Test of the Stolper- Samuelson and Ricardo-Viner Model” Warren Elliott Langevin, Vanderbilt University, “Reconsidering Political Influence in Japanese Courts: A Critical Review of Measuring Judicial Independence with Replication.” Best Graduate Student Paper Award Claudia Nancy Avellaneda, Texas A&M University, “Assessing Local Government Performance: The Role of the Mayor” Pi Sigma Alpha Award - Best Paper Charles Bullock, University of Georgia & Keith Gaddie, University of Oklahoma, “A Comparative Analysis of the Impact of the Voting Rights Act Jewel L. Prestage Best Paper Award Regina P. Branton, Rice University, “The Importance of Race and Ethnicity in Congressional Primary Elections” Allan Saxe Best Paper in State and Local Politics Mark P. Jones, Juan Pablo Micozzi, & Greg Vonnahme, Rice University, “The Evolution of Party Politics in Texas, 1973- 2006: Tracing the Emergence of a Partisan Legislature” Ted Robinson Memorial Award Stephanie K. Schacherer, UT Arlington, “Triple Oppression Class, Gender, and Ethnicity: Women in the Chicano Movement in Texas 1965-1980” viii Southwestern Sociological Association Outstanding Doctoral Student Paper Award Eric Y. Liu & Edward C. Polson, Baylor University, “ A Multi-level Analysis of Fear of Crime Across Houston Area Neighborhoods” Outstanding Masters’ Student Paper Award Carrie Graf & Joseph Baker, Baylor University, “Keeping Up with the Joneses: The Effects of Community level Relative Deprivation on Contentment on Financial Satisfaction” Southwestern Womens’ and Gender Studies Association Paul Hodapp & Steve Mazurana, University of Northern Colorado, "Protection of Women's Fundamental Right to Equality in Theory and Practice" ix PRESIDENTS SOUTHWESTERN SOCIAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION 1919-2007 1919 Hernan G. James 1920 A. P. Wooldridge Political Science University of Texas 1921 George Vaughan Senator Arkansas State Senate 1922 C. B. Ames Judge Oklahoma Supreme Court 1923 E. R. Cockrell Law Texas Christian University 1924 W. M. W. Splawn Commissioner Texas Railroad Commissioner 1925 W. B. Bizzell President A&M College of Texas 1926 J. G. Willacy Senator Texas State Senate 1927 Elmer Scott Civic Leader Dallas, Texas 1928 H. Y. Benedict Political Science